Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
You’ve bought the image they’re selling. If you think they’re idiots, it just gives them another mechanism to manipulate you.
I’m no fan of Bush Jr, but go watch some of his speeches.
Sometimes he says “nuclear”, sometimes he says “nuke-u-lar”.
That’s someone putting on an act. No one says it both ways.
Go watch any politician’s speeches, look for the subtle variations in their behaviours.
They’re not morons, they’re Machiavellian. Appearing to be a moron is just another tool in the box.
(That said, some genuinely are morons, but I’m not dismissing any one of them so lightly - even morons can be Machiavellian).
And in the end, all politics is about manipulation (or said more positively, inducing groups of people toward a shared goal). And politics exists in every single group of humans, no matter how small.
They’ve always been morons about something. Just seems now that they are morons about damn near everything.
Yeah, at least like their grandparents had interesting and clever schemes about money that made you feel like they thought it through even if they were largely incapable of anything else.
Currently it feels difficult to assume they think about anything.
You’ve bought the image they’re selling. If you think they’re idiots, it just gives them another mechanism to manipulate you.
I’m no fan of Bush Jr, but go watch some of his speeches.
Sometimes he says “nuclear”, sometimes he says “nuke-u-lar”.
That’s someone putting on an act. No one says it both ways.
Go watch any politician’s speeches, look for the subtle variations in their behaviours.
They’re not morons, they’re Machiavellian. Appearing to be a moron is just another tool in the box.
(That said, some genuinely are morons, but I’m not dismissing any one of them so lightly - even morons can be Machiavellian).
And in the end, all politics is about manipulation (or said more positively, inducing groups of people toward a shared goal). And politics exists in every single group of humans, no matter how small.